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US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants
CBP’s acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency’s custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly...
Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street...
How to Remove Your Personal Info From Google’s Search Results
Maybe you don’t want your phone number, email, home address, and other details out there for all the web to see. Here’s how to make them vanish...
Internal Emails Reveal How a Controversial Gun-Detection AI System Found Its Way to NYC
NYC mayor Eric Adams wants to test Evolv’s gun-detection tech in subway stations—despite the company saying it’s not designed for that environment. Emails obtained by WIRED show how the company still found an in...
Apple iOS 17.3: How to Turn on iPhone's New Stolen Device Protection
Apple’s iOS 17.3 introduces Stolen Device Protection to iPhones, which could stop phone thieves from taking over your accounts. Here’s how to enable it right now...
Sandworm Hackers Caused Another Blackout in Ukraine—During a Missile Strike
Russia's most notorious military hackers successfully sabotaged Ukraine's power grid for the third time last year. And in this case, the blackout coincided with a physical attack...
A Controversial Plan to Scan Private Messages for Child Abuse Meets Fresh Scandal
An EU government body is pushing a proposal to combat child sexual abuse material that has significant privacy implications. Its lead advocate is making things even messier...
How to Remove Your Personal Info From Google by Using Its ‘Results About You’ Tool
You can now set up alerts for whenever your home address, phone number, and email address appears in Search...
Apple Expands Its On-Device Nudity Detection to Combat CSAM
Instead of scanning iCloud for illegal content, Apple’s tech will locally flag inappropriate images for kids. And adults are getting an opt-in nudes filter too...
Data Breaches: The Complete WIRED Guide
Everything you need to know about the past, present, and future of data security—from Equifax to Yahoo—and the problem with Social Security numbers...
All the Data Amazon's Ring Cameras Collect About You
The popular security devices are tracking and sharing more than you might think...
How China’s Hacking Entered a Reckless New Phase
The country’s hackers have gotten far more aggressive since 2015, when the Ministry of State Security largely took over the country’s cyberespionage...
French Spyware Executives Are Indicted for Aiding Torture
The managers are accused of selling tech to Libya and Egypt that was used to identify activists, read private messages, and kidnap, torture, or kill them...
Ransomware Hits a Food Supply Giant—and Underscores Dire Risk
Hackers targeting JBS USA have disrupted meat processing facilities around the world, just one month after the Colonial Pipeline attack caused fuel distribution havoc...
Hackers Are Exploiting Discord Links to Serve Up Malware
Beware of links from platforms that got big during quarantine...
Clubhouse's Security and Privacy Lag Behind Its Huge Growth
The platform has promised to do better after a string of incidents. But the hardest part might be managing user expectations...
The SolarWinds Hackers Shared Tricks With a Russian Spy Group
Security researchers have found links between the attackers and Turla, a sophisticated team suspected of operating out of Moscow’s FSB intelligence agency...
Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed
Amnesia:33 is the latest in a long line of vulnerabilities that affect countless embedded devices...
The NSA Warns That Russia Is Attacking Remote Work Platforms
A vulnerability in VMWare has prompted a warning that companies—and government agencies—need to patch as soon as possible...
The US Sanctions Russians for Potentially ‘Fatal’ Malware
The message is meant to deter any similar attack against US infrastructure...
How Police Can Crack Locked Phones—and Extract Information
A report finds 50,000 cases where law enforcement agencies turned to outside firms to bypass the encryption on a mobile device...
Android Ransomware Has Picked Up Some Ominous New Tricks
While it's still far more common on PCs, mobile ransomware has undergone a worrying evolution, new research shows...
Trump and the Limits of Content Moderation
The president’s televised encouragement of white supremacy and political violence was a reminder that social media didn’t create these problems...
Facebook Busts Russian Disinfo Networks as US Election Looms
The campaigns primarily targeted countries outside the US. But the same mechanisms could be used in “hack and leak” operations like those that roiled the 2016 campaign...
A Bluetooth Flaw Leaves Billions of Devices Vulnerable
Indictments against Iranian hackers, a Veterans Affairs data breach, and more of the week's top security news...
A DHS Official Says He Was Punished for Not Pushing Trump's Agenda
Brian Murphy says he was pressured to alter reports on Russia and white supremacy—and that he was fired for refusing to budge...
The Blurred Lines and Closed Loops of Google Search
Seemingly small design tweaks to the search results interface may change how and where people find information online...
The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old Zip File
The story of a guy who wouldn't let a few quintillion possible decryption keys stand between him and his cryptocurrency...
Hackers Are Building an Army of Cheap Satellite Trackers
NyanSat is an open source ground station that lets you listen in on low-orbit transmissions for about $100 worth of gear...
Russia's GRU Hackers Hit US Government and Energy Targets
A previously unreported Fancy Bear campaign persisted for well over a year—and indicates that the notorious group has broadened its focus...
Former eBay Execs Allegedly Made Life Hell for Critics
Surveillance. Harassment. A live cockroach delivery. US attorneys have charged six former eBay workers in association with an outrageous cyberstalking campaign...
This Bot Hunts Software Bugs for the Pentagon
Mayhem emerged from a 2016 government-sponsored contest at a Las Vegas casino hotel. Now it's used by the military...
Shadowserver, an Internet Guardian, Finds a Lifeline
Ten weeks ago, Shadowserver's main source of funding dried up. Now it's back on level footing...
The Weird Partisan Math of Vote-by-Mail
Research says that expanding mail-in voting doesn’t help Democrats. So why are Republicans so afraid of it?...
The Defense Production Act Won’t Fix America’s N95 Face Mask Shortage
The Trump administration put off using the DPA for weeks. Now it may be too late to help secure N95 masks where they're needed most...
High-Stakes Security Setups Are Making Remote Work Impossible
Staffers at power grids, intelligence agencies, and more often don’t have the option to work from home, even in light of Covid-19...
Dangerzone Lets You Open Email Attachments Safely
Dangerzone takes potentially malicious files and safely sanitizes them for you...
The US Blames Russia's GRU for Sweeping Cyberattacks in Georgia
By calling out Russia for digital assaults on its neighboring country, the US hopes to head off similar efforts at home...
Facebook's Bug Bounty Caught a Data-Stealing Spree
A few months ago, the company disclosed that apps were siphoning data from up to 9.5 million of its users. It only found out thanks to a bug bounty submission...
How to Watch Donald Trump’s Impeachment Trial
The Senate gets set to debate the rules for Trump’s trial today. Tomorrow, the opening arguments begin...
Scammers Are Exploiting a Firefox Bug to Freeze Your Browser
Fraudulent tech-support sites are causing the browser to lock up and display a disturbing message. Force quitting is the only way out...
The SIM Swap Fix That the US Isn't Using
While foreign phone carriers are sharing data to stop SIM swap fraud, US carriers are dragging feet...
A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions
The larger lesson of an ongoing Ethereum crime spree: Be careful about who's generating your cryptocurrency keys...
DARPA's Hail Mary Plan to Restart a Hacked US Electric Grid
On tiny Plum Island, DARPA stages a real-life blackout to put its grid recovery tools to the test...
A Good Password Law, Hardware Hacks, and More Security News This Week
Hardware hacks, the government gets two-factor, and more security news this week...
How the Kavanaugh Information War Mirrors Real Warzones
Opinion: From using open source intelligence to spreading false reports to brazenly rewriting history, social media warriors on both sides of the controversy are taking a page from Russia...
Facebook's Massive Security Breach: Everything We Know
Up to 50 million Facebook users were affected—and possibly 40 million more—when hackers compromised the social network's systems...
Even If Rod Rosenstein Stays, the Mueller Investigation Status Quo Won't Last
Much of the speculation around deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein's fate misses how disruptive a post-midterms shake-up could be...
Security News This Week: Oh Good, Hackers Beat Two-Factor to Rob Bank Accounts
Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn't break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: Oh Good, Hackers Beat Two-Factor to Rob Bank Accounts appeared first on WIRED...
A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway
Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “Chat Control” bill to find child abuse material online...